Weatherboard



c. e. ROBINSON WEATHERBOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, I920- Patented Oct. 3, 1922.

I \IK Patented et. '3, 31922..

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CHARLES GRIFFITH ROBINSON, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSTGNOE TO THE BEAVER.

- COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Application filed January 12, 1920. Serial Ito. 350,798.

' To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES GRIFFITHRoBINsoN, a citizen of the United States, residin at Bufialo, in thecounty of Erie, State of eW York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Weatherboard (Case G) and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention'relates to weather board for use in building, and 'moreespecially to weather board or siding of the so-called wood brick veneertype. The invention has for its object the provision of an improvedweather board of this character. More particularly, the inventioncontemplates the provision of an improved construction for effecting aweather-tight joint between the longitudinal edges of adj acent boardswhen assembled on the frame of a building.

Weather board is used in large quantities on the side of buildings whereit is nailed, or otherwise appropriately sectured, to the frame of thebuilding to form the exterior thereof. In order to present a pleasingappearance, such weather board should be of an artistic design, and tothis end the weather board is frequently formed so as to present theappearance of a brick wall when assembled and secured to the frame ofthe buildin Weather board for producing this brick edect is generallyknown in the trade as wood brick veneer, and some times as imitationbrick weather boarding, and it is to this type of weather board that thepresent invention particularl relates.

Weather board is ordinarily marketed in the form of board lengths,usually of about the width of ordinary buildin -bricks, for example,about three or four inc es in width. The longitudinal edges of theseboards are formed with complementary tongues,- grooves, or the like, forproviding a weathertight joint between adjacent boards when assembledand secured to the frame of the building. Various forms of joints forthis purpose have heretofore been employed in the manufacture of weatherboard. The present invention contemplates the provision I p of animproved joint for the purposes aforesaid, and, in its broad aspectinvolves the provision of a board having a longitudinal groove extendingto one edge of'the board with a longitudinally extending slot in theother portion of this edge of the board and havin in its opposite edge alongitudinally exten ing rib or tongue complemental to the slot in theother edge of the board.

Tn carryin out the invention, T form on the face of t eboard, andextending to one edge thereof, a longitudinal square-cornered groove ofa depth approximately one-third of the thicknea .i we board. In thissame edge of the beard 1 form a slot parallel to the aforementionedgroove. On the opposite longitudinal edge of the board ll provide a ribor tongue complemental to the slot in the other edge. In defining theconfigurations of the opposite longitudinal edges of the board ascomplemental, ll mean that when the boards are properly assembled, theedge of one board will fit into or complete the contacting edge of thenext adjacent board, thereby providing a satisfactory joint betweenadjacent boards as well as providing a more or less unitary structure ofthe assembled boards.

1 The novel features of the invention which I believe to be patentableare definitely indicated' in the appended claims. These features,together with the structure of Weather board embodying the same, will beclearly understood from the following description, taken in conjunctionwith the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a perspective view of the improved weather board of theinvention assembled as the corner of a building;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the section line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of the weather board illustrated in Fig.2?

Figs. 4 and 5 are plan and end views, respectively, of a weather boardembodying the improved joint of the invention and of a width ofcorresponding to the width of ordinary building brick;

Fig. 6 is an end view of a weather board having a slightly modified formof joint embodying the principles of the invention; and

Figs. 7 and 8 are enlarged views of the joints of the boards shownin'Figs. 5 and 6,

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clined and having a. longitudinally extending slot intermediate thebottom of said groove and the back of the board, the opposite edge ofthe board having a square portion and having inclined portions with atongue intermediate said inclined portions, said tongue and saidinclined portions being complernental to the inclined portions andintermediate slot of the other edge of the board, substantially asdescribed.

2. A weather board having a square cornered longitudinal groove in theface thereof extending to one of the longitudinal edges of the board, anadjacent square cornered longitudinal groove and transverse squarecornered grooves extending between said longitudinal grooves, said edgeof the board being inc-lined and having a longitudinally extending slotintermediate the bottom of said groove and the back of the board, theopposite edge of the board having a squared portion of sub stantiallythe same depth as the depth of said first mentioned groove and havinginclined portions and a tongue intermediate said portions, said tongueand said inclined portions being complemental to the inclined portionsand intermediate slot of the other edge of the board.

In testimony whereof ture.

CHARLES GRIFFITH RQBINSUN.

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